Kôji Sasakawa

Kôji Sasakawa, Japanese coleopterist

Laboratory of Zoology, Department of Science Education, Faculty of Education, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Sasakawa, K., Kim, J.L., Kim. J.K. & Kubota, K. 2008. Taxonomic studies of Pterostichus ishikawai Nemoto (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Entomological Science 11(2): 173-178. DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8298.2008.00261.x. . Reference page.

Sasakawa, K. 2009a. Pterostichus macrogenys Bates (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and Its Allied Species of Northern Japan: Descriptions of Seven Additional Species and Possible Evidence Supporting Species Status. Zoological Studies 48(2): 262-269. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Sasakawa, K. 2016. Two new species of the ground beetle subgenus Sadonebria Ledoux & Roux, 2005 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Nebria) from Japan and first description of larvae of the subgenus. ZooKeys 578: 97-113. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.578.7424. . Reference page.

Sasakawa, K. & Itô, H. 2017. Two new species of the Pterostichus macrogenys species group (Coleoptera, Carabidae) discovered in shallow subterranean habitats in northern Honshu, Japan. Subterranean Biology, 21: 47–56. DOI: 10.3897/subtbiol.21.11155 Reference page.

Sasakawa, K. & Itô, H. 2018. Taxonomic notes on the ground beetles in the genus Trephionus Bates, 1883 from central Honshu, Japan (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Sphodrini, Synuchina). ZooKeys 742: 91–104. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.742.23752. Reference page.

Sasakawa, K. 2020. Taxonomic studies of the ground beetle subgenus Falcinebria Ledoux & Roux, 2005 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Nebria) from Honshû, Japan. ZooKeys 902: 37-60. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.902.46531. . Reference page.
Sasakawa, K., Mitsuduka, Y. & Itô, H. 2020. Unexpected Species Identities and Interspecific Relationships in a Subterranean Beetle Lineage, the Pterostichus macrogenys Species Group (Coleoptera, Carabidae), Revealed by Fine-Scale Field Sampling and Detailed Morphological Comparisons. Insects 11: 1-16. DOI: 10.3390/insects11110803. . Reference page.

Sasakawa, K. 2022. A new synonym of the ground beetle Pterostichus bandotaro Tanaka, 1958 (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Far Eastern Entomologist 449: 18-20. DOI: 10.25221/fee.449.3. . Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Sasakawa, K. & Itô, H. 2022. The identities of two species in the Pterostichus macrogenys species group of subterranean carabid beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) revealed by external morphometric analysis and comparative genital morphology. Subterranean Biology 43: 61–71. DOI: 10.3897/subtbiol.43.80969 . Reference page.